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Engineering notation is similar to scientific notation, with the constraint that the power of ten must be a multiple of 3 (or -3) or zero.

Example: 1. x 102 = 100. x 100

The advantage of engineering notation, is that moving between different metric prefixes (such as kilo-, mega-, giga-, milli-, micro-, nano-) is easier, because they change by a factor of 103.

So in the example above with 1. x 102, if the units were megawatts, and you wanted to see how many kilowatts that was, it is easier with Engineering Notation than scientific. 100. x 100 megawatts = 100. x 103 kilowatts

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